Charles Lamb Quotes

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

I can be a lazy slob.